Lancaster County, PA Poet
The Poetry of William S. Trout
William S. Trout (1909-1980) lived all his life in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he began his public school teaching career in 1931 in a rural one-room school on Welsh Mountain, a few miles from his hometown of Gap.
He wrote more than 750 poems, none of which he sought to publish, and shared only a few of them with trusted friends.
William S. Trout
About Mr. Trout
William Trout lived for most of his life on the edge of Gap, a village in the rolling farmland and hedgerows of southeastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His mother was an elementary school teacher and his father was a carpenter and general handyman who died in the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 when Bill was nine years old, leaving his mother to rear four sons ages 6 to 16.
The death from pneumonia of his six year old sister, a delicate and sickly child, when Bill was not yet two years old, was a loss his mother never got over.
Living to One's-Self: The Life and Poetry of William S. Trout
The Life and Poetry of William S. Trout
By J. Terry Zeller
The book
Discover the influences, the life, and the poems of William S. Trout – Lancaster poet and professor.
Read the poems
The Poems
Over 750 poems were written and recorded in his journals – and the book includes 172 of his poems.
